Dion Lopy (born 2 February 2002) is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Segunda División club Almería and the Senegal national team.
_14_(cropped).jpg) Lopy in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Dion Lopy[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 2 February 2002 | ||
| Place of birth | Dakar, Senegal | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | Defensive midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Almería | ||
| Number | 17 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2020 | Oslo Football Academy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2020–2022 | Reims II | 4 | (0) |
| 2021–2023 | Reims | 59 | (0) |
| 2023– | Almería | 93 | (4) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Senegal U17 | 4 | (0) |
| 2019 | Senegal U20 | 9 | (2) |
| 2019– | Senegal | 5 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 3 June 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:30, 26 March 2024 (UTC) | |||
Club career
editReims
editLopy played youth football for the Oslo Football Academy in the 3rd tier of Senegalese football, before being signed for a compensatory fee by French club Stade de Reims in 2020 after Lopy represented Senegal at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[2]
Lopy played briefly for Reims' second team in the Championnat National 2, before making his Ligue 1 debut in a 2–2 draw with Stade Rennais on 4 April 2021.[3] In the 2022–23 season, he became a first-team regular at Reims, benefitting from manager Will Still's preference for a younger age profile to his squad.[4][5]
Almería
editInternational career
editLopy played for Senegal throughout the youth levels, representing them at the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup[2] and the 2019 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations where they were runners-up.[7]
Lopy made his debut for the senior Senegal national team on 3 August 2019, in a 3–0 victory over Liberia.[8] He had to wait until 28 March 2023 for his second first team appearance, a 1–0 away victory over Mozambique.[9]
Career statistics
editClub
edit- As of match played 12 April 2026[10]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Other | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Reims II | 2020–21 | Championnat National 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22 | Championnat National 2 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 2 | 0 | |||
| Total | 4 | 0 | – | – | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Reims | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | |
| 2021–22 | Ligue 1 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 27 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 31 | 0 | ||
| Total | 59 | 0 | 3 | 0 | – | 62 | 0 | |||
| Almería | 2023–24 | La Liga | 30 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 32 | 0 | |
| 2024–25 | Segunda División | 36 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 41 | 1 | |
| 2025–26 | Segunda División | 22 | 3 | 1 | 0 | – | 23 | 3 | ||
| Total | 88 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 95 | 4 | ||
| Career total | 151 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 161 | 4 | ||
- ↑ Includes Coupe de France, Copa del Rey
- ↑ Appearances in La Liga play-offs
International
editReferences
edit- ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Poland 2019: List of Players: Senegal" (PDF). FIFA. 13 June 2019. p. 19. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2020.
- 1 2 Jeggo, Luc (13 June 2019). "Dion Lopy: from the 3rd tier of Senegal to World Cup stand out". Football Bloody Hell. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ "Reims vs. Rennes - 4 April 2021 - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ Ellis, Adam (16 March 2023). "Stade de Reims: 3 players who have graded well for Will Still in Ligue 1 | PFF News & Analysis". PFF. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ Reis, Bruna (10 April 2023). "Aston Villa linked with Ligue 1 transfer as Everton consider summer move". MSN. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ "El Almería se refuerza con el fichaje de Dion Lopy" [Almería bolster themselves with the signing of Dion Lopy] (in Spanish). UD Almería. 5 August 2023. Retrieved 5 August 2023.
- ↑ "Summary - Africa U20 Cup of Nations - Africa - Results, fixtures, tables and news - Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Senegal vs. Liberia". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Mozambique vs. Senegal". www.national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
- ↑ Dion Lopy at Soccerway. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ↑ Dion Lopy at National-Football-Teams.com
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